On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:16 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: > On 05/27/10 20:20, Ted Smith wrote: > > > Who else is involved in the "inner circle" of GNU Social? You and Rob > > Myers are mentioned in the "The next step" email; is anyone else > > involved? Could you all add a "People" page on the wiki so that we could > > have a more transparent structure? > > There's no inner circle as such -- the only people who've signed > copyright assignment forms are: Myself, Don Robertson, Deborah > Nicholson, Rob Myers, Steve DuBois, plus Sean and Ian. > > Myself, Rob and Sean are on the verge of announcing a protocol plan.
From my point of view, it seems that a group of people has formed that has a bit of a denser network than everyone else, and that group is (quite naturally) having a lot of internal discussion about what GNU Social should be. The plus side of this is that GNU Social gets pushed forward by a dedicated core. The downside of this is that a lot of people get left out, just because they haven't gotten themselves integrated into that core. This sounds a lot like a problem activist groups have often; a very good article that's on that topic is The Tyranny of Structurelessness: <http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm> I highly recommend that anyone Matt named in this email read that article - and that anyone else who's interested do so as well ;-) What I'm really hoping for is for this to become a bazaar, not a cathedral. - Ted
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